charter schools
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Administration
Senior teachers applaud charter school & National Standards scrap
Charter schools were a deregulated, privatised form of schooling that we simply don’t need in New Zealand. They didn’t have…
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Education
More charter schools to become designated character schools
Six more applications from charter school sponsors to establish designated character schools next year have been approved, Education Minister Chris…
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Educators applauding rollback of National Standards and charter schools
“They were set up based on the flawed notion that competition and choice improves educational outcomes, and that the private…
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News
Charter schools: an unnecessary option according to principals
Cormick suggested that charter schools had not been open long enough to show any sustainable gains for Māori and no…
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Changes mooted for contentious charter schools
Options still open for charter schools despite moves to close them
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Charter schools in “limbo”
The opposition National Party says Education Minister Chris Hipkins had failed to provide sufficient information to 'partnership schools' about their…
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New statistics reveal charter schools underachieving
New statistics released by the Ministry of Education (MoE) reveal that only a low percentage of charter school leavers are…
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NZEI: Time to end the charter school experiment
NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling for an end to the charter school experiment, and for all political parties to…
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PPTA: New report on charter schools “a whitewash”
The second charter school report is more of a public relations exercise than rigorous evaluation, claims the Post Primary Teachers'…
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Collaboration is key to educational success: NZEI
Naming and shaming schools and then pitting them against each other in a competitive, profit-driven environment is a failed recipe…
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